Which Drivers Benefit Most From Clean Air (And Why)
Clean air is one of the easiest ideas in F1 to describe—and one of the hardest to model responsibly. Everyone understands that a car is faster when it isn’t tucked behind another car, but the size of that benefit depends on the track, the car’s aero sensitivity, tyre compounds, temperatures, and the driver’s style. This is exactly why a calculator mindset matters: if you want to use simulations to make smarter calls (race strategy, championship scenarios, or “who benefits most from pole?”), you need to translate “clean air” into assumptions you can vary, not a single magical number.m
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